18 Mind-Blowing Satellite Photos Of Earth That Will Remind You How Small You Really Are

The sandy and rocky terrain of the Sahara desert in western Algeria.

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1. The Al Jawf Oasis in southern Libya, deep in the Sahara Desert

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European Space Agency

2. Uluru/Ayers Rock in the Australian outback

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European Space Agency

3. A chain of volcanoes called the Virunga mountains that stretch across Rwanda’s northern border with Uganda and east into the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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European Space Agency

4. The Clearwater Lakes in Canada’s Quebec province

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European Space Agency

5. The sand seas of the Namib Desert in southern Africa

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European Space Agency

6. The Lighthouse Atoll in the Belize Barrier Reef

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European Space Agency

7. Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River

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European Space Agency

8. Clouds covering the North Sea and sweeping down to the strait between Denmark and Norway

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European Space Agency

9. The Po River, which flows over 650 km from west to east across northern Italy as the country’s longest river

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European Space Agency

10. The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya

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European Space Agency

11. The French island of Corsica, one of the largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea

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European Space Agency

12. The man-made Raystown Lake in Pennsylvania

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European Space Agency

13. An area in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo

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European Space Agency

14. Rolling hills of farmland in the northwest United States

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European Space Agency

15. The elongated islands of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago on the left, the mainland of northwestern Russia to the right and an ice-covered Kara Sea at center

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European Space Agency

16. The island of Cyprus

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European Space Agency

17. The Juruá River in western Brazil

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European Space Agency

18. The sandy and rocky terrain of the Sahara desert in western Algeria

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European Space Agency
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